Gold Winner Cha Baa Thai Restaurant, downtown Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Ko-Doraku At Cha Baa, co-owner Wen Dao approaches the lunch special strategically. The choices on offer are a selection from the gold-winning Best Thai Restaurant’s full menu—“We take all the best-sellers,” says Dao—served in a less expensive, lunch-sized portion. […]
Ko-Doraku
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Night time is the right time at Ko-Doraku
One of Spring Garden’s most sparkling gems, Ko-Doraku/Dora-Q (5640 Spring Garden Road) is expanding its evening offerings. Starting this weekend (August 31 and September 1), the small-but-mighty sushi joint below Spring Garden Place will up the ante on its usual menu, adding izakaya (Japanese bar snacks) to the mix. Those heading out of town for […]
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Best Lunch Specials
Gold Winner Cha Baa Thai, Halifax Silver Winner Piatto Pizza + Enoteca Bronze Winner Ko Doraku, Brenton Street It’s obvious why people flock to Cha Baa Thai for its lunch specials – they’re affordable, and they have a great variety of both meat and veggie options. One website review calls the masaman curry “heavenly,” but stir […]
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A little piece of heaven
Sushi Ko Doraku 5640 Spring Garden Road, 1949 Upper Water Street $2.50/2.75 (nigiri), $4.50 (maki) Beef patties Stella’s Antiguan Cuisine Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road $3 each or 2/$5 Korean taco Indochine Banh Mi 1551 South Park Street / 1701 Barrington Street $4 California sandwich Izzy’s Bagel 1180 Bedford Highway $3.99 Onion bhaji […]
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Best Lunch Specials
Gold Winner Piatto Pizzeria + Enoteca Silver Winner Cha Baa Thai, Halifax Bronze Winner Ko Doraku, Spring Garden What does $12.99 get a girl anymore? A sad solo sandwich and a cup of coffee? Not at this Napolean pizza joint. Monday through Saturday, Piatto is dishing up what is truly one of the sweetest lunch […]
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Friday’s round-up: 10 things you need to know
1 Today on Extreme Garage Makeovers, slick climbing gym Seven Bays Bouldering makes its debut in the shell of the former Raceway Auto Centre on Gottingen Street. You and your spidey senses are invited to its soft opening this evening from 3-11pm. 2 There’s still time to catch the tail-end of #NSCraftBeerWeek this weekend, but […]
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The Shop talk guided tour: Spring Garden Road
Without question, the Spring Garden Road area is the healthiest retail district in Atlantic Canada, forever recreating and transforming itself in interesting and positive ways. And right now, there’s more construction going on than ever before: Framed on the north by the pricey Trillium condo building, which will be a sure incentive for even more […]
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A little more about Doraku and Suzuki
It has come to The Feed’s attention that further elucidation of our Doraku becomes Suzuki story of last week is required. Shuji Manabe and his wife Misao are the owners of Ko-Doraku (Spring Garden Place, 5640 Spring Garden Road, 423-8787) and were the former owners of Doraku Japanese Cuisine, the Japanese restaurant now known as […]
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Best Lunch Specials
Over the eight years since they started Ko-Doraku, chef Shuji Manabe and his wife Misao have honed an impressive model of efficiency. Lunch only, cash only, they’ll serve 250 customers on a busy day, with help from just one employee. The Japanese menu includes standing specials like the $5.25 vegetable sushi plate, and there’s a […]